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Tokyo’s underground bicycle storage system looks more like an elaborate mechanism from a sci-fi movie than a parking lot for cycles. Put into motion with a single push of a button, the Eco Cycle Anti-Seismic Underground Bicycle Park, built by Japanese engineering firm Giken Seisakusho Co. LTD is just seven meters wide, but it’s deep enough to store 144 bicycles. The system provides the city’s bike users with an efficient parking solution that ensures complete safety for cycles.

This emission-free way of navigating the city comes with a set of issues-bikes get stolen, while large bike parking areas tend to clutter the streets. Giken’s Eco-Cycle can hold up to 800 bikes and helps eliminate the nuisance of bicycle parking on the pavement.

The Japanese firm combined their long term experience of press-in technologies and developed the Eco-Cycle Underground Park with the design concept of “Culture Aboveground, Function Underground”. The user presses in a code and sends his or her bike on its way to underground safety.

The subject is interested but I would like to get more information/details about the car parking ( i.e. Dimensions , depth and some technical details ) .
Thanks and Regards,
Mohammad Haytham AL Homsi
+971506125094
United Arab Emirates

I would have though that this bike storage system is the least needed in Japan as I noticed that most/many people don't even lock up their bikes! I suppose it depends what kind of bike you are riding and I guess there's the space issue in Japan-any excuse to make a robot!

Elegant storage solution, but I don't think it would work where I live: The bottom of the shaft would be 20 to 30 meters below the local water table. Perhaps a silo extending 40 to 50 meters above ground could work, however.